The 10 Most Terrifying Things About Coffee Bean Shop

Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee bean company lover You'll want to go to a coffee bean shop. They offer a wide variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. Some shops offer them in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

When you walk into this old-school West Village shop, the scent of freshly roasted beans fills your nose. Unopened bags of dark brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrants Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing an influx of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to cater to their culinary needs. Albanese named the shop after the popular Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so famous at the moment, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, the current owner and president of the business was raised above his family's bakery located on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He runs the shop in the same manner as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both an espresso bar and a coffee roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their co-founders, who are 33 years old, started roasting coffee in a loft on the fourth floor just across the street in the year 2011. They called it Lofted luxury coffee beans. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the acclaim of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were hand-picked at the peak of ripeness, then removed by flotation to eliminate defects, then dry fermented for 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a blend that is fragrant with hints of the melon and berry.

Sey's goal of holistically improving the wellbeing of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the retail store. It uses composts and biodegradable disposables in order to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, a move that places baristas in the position to support their livelihoods and inspire them to focus on their profession.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They started with a small store and a committed staff. Their honest and innovative method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their local area and across the globe.

La Carba has a rigorous procedure for locating their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that are perfect for their tastes. Then they roast them in a very light style before dialing them in to achieve their desired flavor profile. This gives their coffees more clarity and a better taste.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek, minimalist design. It has been praised by international coffee lovers for its precise pour overs and baked goods that are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop uses the La Marzocco modbar and the cups and plates are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day, and has usually seven or eight varieties available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of barista coffee beans that roasts on-site and brews on demand, with each cup of coffee beans price roasting and brewed according to your preferences in less than minutes. It searches the world across the globe for the highest-quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced, offering customers choice and quality.

Their onsite roaster uses fluid bed technology which is quite different from the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into a heated container with high-speed air, which is circulated. This keeps the beans suspended and ensures a consistent roasting rate.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma and as you sip the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.

The coffee that has been roasted will be transferred to the store's Eversys Super-Automatic brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a range of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since developed to become a burgeoning roastery, whose beans can be found in a variety of great cafes as well as restaurants and home brewers in every city. Parlor Coffee is dedicated to sourcing only the highest-quality coffee beans beans, which have all been through a long journey before they reach its roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be accessible to anyone." They accomplish that by creating a simple area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and a simple deco.

They roast and create their own blends as well as single-origins (there were six at the time I was there), but they also do cuppings Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area--you can taste and smell the beans as they are roasted. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They're a bit away from the tourist trail but are well worth a trip.